Morning journal and courier., 1887-01-19
HARTFORD, Jan. Is.

HOuSc-SenaBOF tIon-COunty Commissioner Jacobs'
 Report-NO New Business After Feb-
 ruary 3.
 HARTFORD, Jan. IS. Special to the JOURNAL CoURIER.I Both houses of the legislature this after noon reflected the Hon. Joseph R. Hawley to the United States Senate. He received a concurrent vote, and the joint convention to- morrow will do no more than to affirm bis election.
 Now that the Senatorship has been settled it is expected the wheels of legislation will revolve rapidly and accurately. To-day the House passed in concurrence the Senate reso- lution limiting the introduction of new bus1- 1 ness to February g. A large batch of busi- ! ness will be presented during the remaining ! weeks of January. There will be an unusual amount Of routine work, mainly in the dirsc- tion or adapting the laws to the new system of legislation. There will be several bills which look to the welfare of the working ! man brought up next week. Among the ] most important will be one asking for the enforcement of the eight hour law, and the ] weekly payment bill. The latter bill intro duced will be on the plan of the law now ill force in the State of Massachusetts. It pro- vides for full unconditional weekly payment by corporations, for the violation of which the penalty is $50 fine on each case. There will be the usual amount of railroad, insurance and corporation acts and miscel- laneous bills brought up during the time re- maining for the presenting of such. It is predicted that the session will be of unusual length. Almost every legislator has one or more bills or petitions to present, and these of course must go through the usual formula of committee hearings, and it is likely to be spoken on by dozen or more members when it finally gets before the legislature. It is the opinion of a Senator who has served be- fore that an unusual number of bills will be presented to this legislature. ''The biennial session of course has much to do with this infux," said he, land then the people are beginning to become more and more aware of the fact that every citizen has right to have bill introduced.
 EsThe election of the U. S. Senator has talk en up the attention of the legislators since the Governors election and now that the Senator is elected we will get down to busi- ness
 Certaln Senators ana hepr6S6nCaC1VeS found bound copies of the revision of the statutes on their desks this afternoon. The copies were part of the edition of two hun dred, the others having been distributed to lawyers throughout the State to offer their comments thereon. The report of the com
 mission accompanied the volumes. The com
 mission have been for some time, it states, considering the terms of county commission CTS. The matter is the subject of separate act to be recorded among the session laws of 1887. The features of that bill will be to enlarge the terms to four years, the positions being reflled biennially in 1891 and thereafter. The gist of the bill is as follows, being an amendment to section 1, chapter ii, part IS, title of the general statutes: During the session of 1887 two of said ! commissioners in each county shall be ap- pointed who shall hold office until the first ! day of July, 1891. The term of office of the l first of the commissioners so appointed in I each county in 1887 shall begin on the first ! day of July, 1887, and the term of office of the other on the first day of July, 1888. During the session of 1889 one commissioner shall be appointed in each county, who shall ! hold office for four years. Biennially there after commissioners shall be appointed as the expiration of the term of office | to hold office for four years. | Vacancies may be filled by the Governor un- ! til the Wednesday of the third week of the I next regularly recurring session. The act | will take effect from it's passage. All ap- | pointments at this session will therefore be l made under it.'
 | The county Representatives meetings were | held this afternoon. At the meeting of the l New Haven county Commissioner Jacobs re- ported that the county debt had been reduced | S7, ,500 and that the new County home had | been instituted at cost of $7,000, out of an | appropriation of $10, 900. The commissioners la4; Ar ! gestions to make as to making tax. The twenty-first annual report of the Sheffield Scientific school was issued to day. | It contains complete defense by the govern l ing board of charges that the school was not complying with the contract made with it by l the State in pursuance of the congressional grant of 1869. The Board very clearly show that the act applies not only to the service of agriculture, but to instruction in the me chanic arts as well, and that instead of a dozen State students graduated there have been Gas students for part or the whole of
 the course) 241. The States quota is now
 9 and a fraction, but a fact % of such
 students are studying. The Board has al
 ways been generous to the State and recog-
 nizes that the contract between it and the commonwealth has been mutually advan- tageous.
 Already two large applications have been made to the comptroller by oyster dealers asking 8 return of the money invested in oys ter teds. Both applications contain an or der directing the money to be paid to Henry c. Rowe of Fair Haven. One of them is signed by ex- Representative Grove J. Futile of East Haven and ths other by Henry D. Russell of New Haven. One calls for $oS7
 and the other for over $1, 1,1G0. As there is
 no money specifically appropriated for this object none has been paid, but the State will
 be obliged at this session of it's legislature to make some appropriation to meet the indebt edness. The Committee on Appropriations
 will adjust the matter and perhaps recon
 mend Eill to repeal the present act. The county caucuses today did little.
 Various reports were accepted after the or
 ganization.